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BRUINS Honda Center Open Practice

Bringin on Banner 12, Baby!

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My Daughter Krystal (who has a huge crush on Russell Westbrook! I told her I would embarrass her!) and I went to the Honda Center to check out the Bruins open practice. It was all about getting loose, having fun giving the crowd a nice little show.

We got there a bit early (yes...I left work because of that sickness that comes around this time every year) and saw BYU...but what I noticed was that, even though it was mostly for fun, Coach Howland never stopped praising, commenting and, well, coaching. The boys were having fun, but also listening to Coach Howland and Daniels. A bit over halfway through the 40 minutes coach called everyone to center court for the shoot off. This is where it got amazing. K Love took one or two shots from midcourt, then moved over the opposite endline, where he proceeded to shoot from FULL COURT. Out of 12 shots I think he hit backboard all but 3 times. Three shots hit the rim...one made it. Incredible. The whole place went loco. Of course...that was the ONE SHOT I DIDN'T get on video! I did manage to get Kevin's reaction though...he bowed to the crowd (the 1:13 mark). The following videos (both are the same) show Kevin's incredible skill, and some just plain fun stuff too. Check out Dragovic's "dunk" at the 1:28 mark.

Youtube has been out tonight, so I dumped a low-res video on one of my sites. Be patient...they do load:

http://www.burrolandia.com/Bruins/index.htm

A higher res version is here:

http://www.burrolandia.com/Bruins/index.html

I also uploaded some pics from the PochoCam to my Flickr! account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericjasso/sets/72157604172199377/

Nestor or anyone else go ahead and embed these if you wish...it's late and I am lazy tonight!

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of BruinsNation's (BN) editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of BN's editors.

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My good friend was roommates with Russel last year. Apparently he's a really nice guy and a good roommate.

by bhbruin on Mar 19, 2008 11:06 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Oh no, bhbruin...
...if she reads this you will get an email for sure! When Russell said "thank you" after the Bruin trainer brought him a water she nearly died. "DAD...he said THANK YOU to the trainer! See how sweet and nice he is?"

by pocho on Mar 19, 2008 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

What's the big deal?
I can shoot a basketball* into the hoop** from 90** meters more than half* the time.

piece of paper
**trash
*
0.9 meters
*
**1/100 of

by dokein on Mar 20, 2008 12:18 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

saw a closed practice mid-season
praise comes, but often only after some fiery anger. you gotta be playing well and playing right and playing full-speed before you get anything but an earful. then comes praise.

by jjreicher on Mar 20, 2008 8:15 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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